Title devised by cataloger, based partly on the form of titles used in the later published works

The numbers 34 and 35 are each repeated once in the contemporary handwritten pagination, without duplication of text

Leaves written on both sides

Hand-drawn illustrations, many painted with watercolors

The first eight pages are slightly wider than the volume and are folded along the fore-edge. The first two pages have a damaged fore-edge that was clumsily repaired, affecting the text on page one

The first ten plates have later foliation added in pencil; the contemporary plate numbering in ink (as referenced in the text) begins with the eleventh plate, which is numbered as "planche premiere."

Two small ink sketches of cannons have been tipped in with sealing wax on plate 9 (that is, on the eighteenth plate in the volume)

action: Tunnels! ; 39088003342490, fold-out plate 16; 1993/08/27 - 1994/05/05; Ellen Wells; Dibner Library Gallery; Ellen Wells, Paul Forman, Jeff Stine; occasional tears, glue stains, good condition

In French

Holograph manuscript signed. containing Vauban's dedicatory letter to Monseigneur Le Duc de Bourgogne and "cet ouvrage," namely the two treatises

Tunnels! ;

SCDIRB copy 39088003342490 has bookplate: Burndy Library ... gift of Bern Dibner

SCDIRB copy has an antique-style gilt-tooled full vellum binding over paper boards; red edges, and braided leather clasps looping over small white (ivory?) balls; one of the balls is wanting

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